Joshua Romisher joins Fenix team as chief financial officer

Tuesday, 09 January 2018 06:45

Joshua Romisher is a solar finance expert and social entrepreneur in the field. (Image source: Fenix)Fenix International, a next generation energy company operating across Africa, has appointed Joshua Romisher to its core leadership team as chief financial officer

Before joining Fenix, Romisher served as vice-president of corporate finance at Off Grid Electric. In his most recent position at Off Grid Electric, Romisher played a major role in raising innovative debt and equity financing for the solar home system company.

As a serial entrepreneur with a long-standing interest in building life-changing businesses, he is expected to play an important role in Fenix’s aim to deliver solar home systems and other life-changing products to the customers across Africa.

Romisher’s previous experience includes serving as a director at Credit Suisse Securities in New York and San Francisco, where he specialised in debt capital markets, specifically in structured products. At Credit Suisse, Joshua was ranked amongst the top ten practitioners in the Institutional Structured Products Group.

At Fenix, Romisher is set to lead development of new financial products, create credit scores for unbanked customers, build finance capability and structure innovative debt facilities to support rapid growth.

Commenting on the appointment, Lyndsay Handler, CEO of Fenix International, said, “With his unique finance experience from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, India and Africa, Fenix aims to deliver the most inclusive energy solution in Africa and to unlock a wider world of financing for our customers.”

Romisher added, “Over 600mn Africans are still currently living off the grid. To reach the vast numbers of people who remain without clean, reliable and affordable access to power we must think differently. Fenix's technology & brand combined with its partnership with Engie provide the ideal platform to reach these households, unlocking massive social, environmental and economic benefits.”